“I see current tech discourses laced with all sorts of strange religious and quasi-religious supplements—even beyond Peter Thiel and his fixation on the Antichrist.”
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“Most people in our secular academic world shy away from religious talk and don’t emphasize the sacred in discussing their favorite sources. This short paper aims in part to correct that.”
“Over the coming centuries, it continued to be seen as an illness, an emotional weakness, a spiritual failing, and a tragic yet compelling sensitivity.”
Race, Sexuality, and the Arts of Offense
“What actually rankles Zeus is the claim that humanity’s magnificence derives from its capacity to contain both wretchedness and grandeur.”
“The question arises: why was the Catholic Church’s new document prepared and to whom is it addressed? It could have provided an answer to the most important question of our times—how to reconcile different and conflicting perceptions of reality. This did not happen.”
Pope Leo and David Graeber Count the Costs of Efficiency
“Teilhard de Chardin, a son of the same Church, saw evolution converging toward greater complexity and consciousness, a ‘noosphere’ thickening around the planet.”
“Americans were worried about the implications of Congressional prayer—even religious Americans.”
“Being human means being authentically moved in your own heart in mysterious ways by revelations that don’t originate from aggregated data about other people collected by other people. Only you can know what it feels like for you to read Hamlet, see a solar eclipse, or hear your child’s heartbeat.”
